Mylar Productions-who brought you Lyn Larsen and George Wright, invites you to ....

"MEET HELEN DELL"

The scintillating performer at the 1968 ATOE National Convention The sparkling new artist at the 1968 Home Organ Festival playing the Kearns/Carson 3/26 Wurlitzer

"A happy combination of a great artist and a magnificent instrument" -Stu Green

Eight rhythmic, beautiful songs: Hard Hearted Hannah-Love Locked Out-I'm Thru With Love-Dainty Miss-Angel Eyes-Personality­ One Morning in May plus This exceptional artist creates fresh new sounds on the Hammond: Little White Lies-Sunny-Gitanerias-How High the Moon.

Stereo only $5.00, postpaid

Send check or money order to: MYLAR PRODUCTIONS, Box 3304, Glendale, 91201.

Southern California Now Has It's Own "Pizza Joint" Long notorious for a complete Steve credits Shirley with a good lack of pipe organs installed where 50 percent of the installation labors, the organ-loving public can drop in especially the wiring. The pipework to hear them, Southern Califoria is installed in one chamber located could take pride in the first such in what would normally be the establishment since Clifton's Cafe­ storefront, a glassed-in area which teria in Los Angeles discontinued usually has a group of passers-by use of its 2-8 Moller many years ago. gauking over the many whistles Bud Taylor, veteran theatre organist presides at The idea of a Wurlitzer in a inside. A Tibia Clausa has been "Pizza Parlor" console. He starts early bec-ause Pizza fans in Covina seem to be an early-to-bed Pizza house was frankly borrowed added and a Clarinet is going in, crowd. After that the beer sippers arrive so Bud must play until closing-no matter how early by Steve and Shirley Barden from so it will be a 7-ranker when fin- he started. - Stufoto the justly famous Pizza Joynt of (Continued on Page 39) Carsten Henningsen in San Loren­ zo, Calif., where it's the place to go for the Bay Area pipe-hungry. After securing property in a commercially promising area ( Covina, about 25 miles from LA), Steve and wife Shirley went to work on the instal­ lation of a 5-rank Wurlitzer they had stashed some time earlier. De­ scribed by Steve as a style 170 the organ ( V ox, String, Concert Flute, Dulciana and Tuba, rather than the -Owner Steve Bardon (left} shows Dick Loder• hose through the store-front chamber where the usual Style D Trumpet) was instal­ five ranks can be heard also out in the street. Loderhose came from for the holidays led originally in the Selma Theatre, and enjoyed the little Wurli-even though he has Traps and percussions are installed for visual im• a 42 rank Wurli perking in his New York home. Selma, Calif. pact as much as for increased volume. - Stufoto - 5tufoto

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When youthful ( 25) Dwight Bea­ - CLASSIFIED ADS - cham ( 1968 ATOE conventioners

heard him play the Wurli at the FOR SALE-BOOKS: Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra FOR SALE-WURLITZER Style D complete, rebuilt $3.95; Wurlitzer Unit Organs $4.50; Wurlitzer Fact entirely with relays for 16 ranks. Console has been Haven of Rest) moved away from Book $2.00; Whitworth's CINEMA & THEATRE OR­ enlarged and rebuilt to control eleven unified ranks. GANS $15.00; Williams' European Organ $20.00; Two three-horsepower Spencer blowers equipped Los Angeles to accept a teaching job Wurlitzer Church Organs $2.00; Audsley's ART OF for single-phase. Available immediately. Contact: 300 miles north at Paso Robles, ORGAN BUILDING $15.00; Norman's Organ Today ROBERT 8. FRAY, JR., 3917 West 68th Street, $7.50; Sears' The Reed Organ $2.00. ORGAN LI­ Prairie Village, Kansas 66208, or call after 6:00 local fans figured that he wouldn't TERATURE FOUNDATION, 45 Norfolk Road, Brain­ P.M. daily, (913) 262-5464 (A Kansas City suburb). tree, Massachusetts 02184. have much time to do anything about the little two-deck Wurli he FOR SALE-Three-manual Fourteen-rank playing FOR SALE--=Make an offer. Two large reservoirs; WURLITZER with 3400 square foot house attached, one swell shade action eleven feet long, twelve left behind, neatly installed in his private area, no noise trouble, San Fernando Valley magnets and bellows; about twenty-five metal dum­ view included. All for $115,000. Write: Box D, 3291 my pipes from a Kimball church organ. GEORGE parents' home. With the move and Guido Street, Oakland, California 94602. R. JOHNSON, 6516 Haystack Road, Alexandria, Virginia 22310. fatherhood fast overtaking him, SILENTS ARE GOLDEN but they are better with music . If you have piano or organ music for silent chances of moving the organ seemed film accomoaniment please contact : SILENTS ARE GOLDEN, P.O. Box 2345, North Hollywood, Calif. FOR SALE--4m/20r Wurlitzer Publix with two Eng­ remote. But, the doubters figured 91603. lish Horns. Mostly all releathered. Console natural cherry mahogany. Condition generally good .. Instru­ without taking into consideration ment being dismantled prior to moving. Best price WANTED-Bench and Music-rack for Wurlitzer- of $7,500 or over takes. BILL HOLLEMAN, 3470 the great zeal for theatre pipes 185 console. ED RANEY, 6211 Temple Hill Drive, Iroquois, , 48214. (313) 923-0428. Los Angeles, Calif. 90028. Telephone: HO 9-9181. which must haunt Dwight. With newborn Holly safe in the crib, wife Ginny hack in the kitchen and the teaching job ( music, nat­ Southern California drive North for a half mile to the urally) going well, Dwight began to "Pizza Organ" Barranca Center ( right side of street) . The menu is Pizza, soft thirst for the sound of his own (Continued from Page 29) drinks, beer and the long-popular pipes. The way Ginny puts it, "we ished. Some large-scale pitched per­ music of Bud Taylor on the pipes. have become one of the main sup­ cussions have been distributed a­ - G. Bandini porters of the U-Haul Trailer Comp­ round the ceiling of the restaurant, any." Three months after their a very large Marimba, Xylophone, departure the Beachams have Glockenspiel and a full toy counter. Record Review moved more than half of the B­ There's one additional goodie in ranker from LA to Paso Robles, and (Continued from Page 35) the wind, a real, honest-to-goodness that task wasn't even started until Wurlitzer Brass Trumpet which will by Ben Hall, about the score and Dwight had built a suitable cham­ replace the Tuba to provide more Wurlitzer restoration project, ac­ ber. so it shouldn't he long before brassy tightness. companies the recording. Dwight will he able to do some­ What Shirley didn't install, of Side II of the disc presents some thing about the vacuum he ran into the original 5 ranks, Steve did. Or­ songs from the Valentino years in when he got nothing hut what's gan technician Don Kohles was very special arrangements: Remem­ that? upon mentioning theatre hired to do the finishing and vocal ber in a 4/ 4 hurry-up tempo before organ in the Paso Robles area. In touchup. Then organist Bud Taylor the sweet chorus; Sleepy Time Gal case there's still any doubt, Dwight signed on as resident organist and ( which rides initially on some solo declares, " .... theatre organ? I he pitched in to help get the Tibia stops) ; Someone To Watch Over love it - almost as much as I love going. By the time this hits print, Me, Always, Romherg's One Alone my spouse and Holly." Steve, Shirley and Bud will surely (in part played in Ravel's Bolero * * * * * * have the Clarinet in, perhaps even tempo), and a satisfying 5- minute Colin Corbett still plays the 3-19 the Brass Trumpet, and the major version of When Day Is Done, play­ Hillgreen-Lane Theatre Pipe Organ bugs removed. Except for the still ed as a ballad and sometimes in in the Odeon-Carlton Theatre ( on silent Clarinet, the trio had it all rhythm. Carlton St., near the corner of Yon­ going and in good playing shape The Beacon organ has the big ge St.) in Toronto, Ontario every chomp, guzzle and kihhitz during of a Wurlitzer Vox/Tihia mix we've Saturday night at about 9 p.m. for the recent holidays. theatre sound and the best example 15 minutes. The console rises on a So you travelers who make a heard on records in some time. Fav­ lift out of the center of the large point of taking in the pipe organs orite is Erwin's Love Theme from covered-over orchestra pit of the at each stopover, add the name the Eagle score. It has the same theatre which is advertised on tel­ Monk's Musical Pizza to the agenda. kind of langorous appeal as the evision as The Showplace Of The It's at 644 South Barranca Avenue, String-rich David Rose compositions Nation, advises Niagara Frontiers­ Covina, California. Get off the San ( e.g. Our Waltz, Deserted City~ man, Dave Vuckson. Bernadino Freeway at Barranca and California Melodies.

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